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Sponsored search has become increasingly important due to the rapid development of Web search engines and pay per click (PPC) is amongst one of the most important advertising models search engines currently use. One of the key questions in sponsored search is that: Given a query or a substituted keyword, which ads should search engines display to the users in order to maximize their revenue? In...

For Your Eyes Only: Learning to Summarize First-Person Videos

With the increasing amount of video data, it is desirable to highlight or summarize the videos of interest for viewing, search, or storage purposes. However, existing summarization approaches are typically trained from third-person videos, which cannot generalize to highlight the first-person ones. By advancing deep learning techniques, we propose a unique network architecture for transferring ...

More than Paradoxes to Offer: Exploring Motivations to Attract Women to Computing

The question we raise in this paper is why some women choose not to go into computing. What motivates their reasons for selecting their major and occupational goals? We interviewed twelve first year women who are not majoring in Computer Science and found half had pro-social goals for their careers. When asked if participants thought that people working in computing are helping people, some tol...

Does warmer China land attract more super typhoons?

Accurate prediction of where and when typhoons (or named hurricanes which form over the North Atlantic Ocean) will make landfall is critical to protecting human lives and properties. Although the traditional method of typhoon track prediction based on the steering flow theory has been proven to be an effective way in most situations, it slipped up in some cases. Our analysis of the long-term Ch...

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